7 politicians who said the sequester would never happen

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks against automatic budget cuts scheduled to take effect next week, while in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex in Washington February 19, 2013. If Congress fails to act, about $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts begin on March 1 and continue through September 30 as part of a decade-long $1.2 trillion budget savings plan. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS)

These politicians said the sequester would never happen. They were wrong.

The whole point of the sequester — that wonky term for $85 billion in automatic budget cuts set to be triggered by Congress' failure to find another way to reduce the deficit — was that it would never happen. But now the consensus in Washington is that the sequester is inevitable.Whoops.Here's a sampling of national leaders who argued that we'd never get to this point: President Barack Obama In the third presidential debate, President Obama was blunt in his assessment …